Work Place Stress

Everyone, regardless of who they are or what
they do, can benefit by having some program
in place for Stress Management.

Let’s face it, Stress is a part of everyone’s life.
Whether you are a high powered executive, or
a stay at home mother, situations are sure to
arise to increase the Stress in your life.

This Stress will affect the way you feel, think
and act. Having a Healthy Way To Coping With
Stress can make a difference to overall state
of well-being and your long term Health.

There are many forms of Stress Relief that can be
added to a Stress Management program.

On a personal level you can use , physical exercise,
visualization techniques, a hot, steamy bubble bath,
relaxations techniques and meditation.

Other forms of Stress Relief that can be
performed by people other than yourself, are
acupuncture, acupressure, hypnosis (or self
hypnosis), and a realm of other programs or
activities, uniquely tailored to fit the individual
undertaking a Stress Management program.

You don’t need to have an expensive treatment
program for effective Stress Management. A
Healthy Way To Cope With Stress is to manage
your daily Stress. This will help to provide a happy
and healthy life.

Part of a good Stress Management Plan simply
involves identifying the areas of Stress in an
individual’s life.

A first step in dealing with Stress is to take an
objective look at circumstances and situations
that may seem unmanageable.

Then formulate a plan to reduce the level of
Stress produced by each situation.

Often situations which create a large amount
of Stress can be eliminated completely. For
those situations which cannot be entirely
eliminated, a plan to better manage the
situation, is often helpful in relieving the
overall amount of Stress the person
is feeling.

One of the most common sources of Stress
is the habit of not setting Healthy Limits on
the amount of commitments they enter into,
such as the person who can’t say “no” to
any request made.

Overextending oneself creates undue Stress,
and generally leads to exhaustion, burn out,
and inevitably, “failure” to fulfill many of ones
obligations.

Underlying causes of the behavior should be
addressed, if an individual has a difficult time
making necessary changes in their routine, or
setting Healthy Limits for themselves.

Many times an individual has a deep fear of
failure, or a desperate need to “live up” to
unrealistic limits. Health problems or other
life events finally force them to set limits
on their time.

What limits can be set comfortably? What
obligations and commitments can be let go?
Simple questions such as these can go a long
way toward helping identify the sources of
Stress, and creating a plan to reduce the
affects of Stress that stresses a person’s life
and improve their Health.

A Stress Management Plan not only requires a
daily plan but a more general weekly plan for
things that get pushed aside but still linger in
your mind at odd times.

Your plan should include three different list.
The one stipulation is that any thing on the
lists are not related to work, or another source
of stress in your life.

Begin by identifying 5 activities that you really
enjoy participating in. These can be anything
from reading a good book, to taking a long walk
on the beach, a hobby, things you have always
wanted to do, or things that you used to enjoy.

On the second list have at least 2 things that
you almost always do, that you either probably
shouldn’t be doing, or can live without doing.
These are things that will not cause your world
to fall apart, if you stop doing them.

Then list at least 2 things that you probably
should have done by now, but didn’t. Things you
have been putting off, or problems you have not
been dealing with directly.

At this point your 3 lists will now become a goal
sheet for your Stress Management Plan.

-Spend at least 15 minutes every day doing one of the
things you enjoy.

-Eliminate 1 needless tasks from the list of things to
do during the week.

-Tackle 1 thing that you have been putting off for a
while. Break the task into smaller parts if it is too large
or time consuming.
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Be sure to write your lists down so you will remember
what they are, and you can see your progress as you
do each thing.

Many times it is just making a commitment to reduce
the level of Stress in your life, that produces the needed
results. This is easy to achieve by taking a few small,
but meaningful, steps toward improving your overall
health and well-being with a Stress Management Plan.